HDD upgrade in my T61p - first impressions

[Yacek]

Hi all,

Finally I decided to replace my old factory Seagate 160GB 5400 rpm with a bigger one. After looking at different opinions here I went to WD Scorpio Black 320GB 7200 rpm. I cloned old drive with acronis (went very very smooth with no probs at all).
First impressions:
- notable faster system load and shutdown
- quiet as old drive
- heat is not an issue.....

Just to add that vista HDD perfomance index has changed from 4.7 (old bottleneck) to 5.9 (!). I guess this is a good increase in perfomance....

will keep you updated if anything problematic happens (hope not!).

Yacek

[AvalonXIII]

Most of the time you don't want to use Vista index score as a basis for performance gain. But yeah, the new drive does make a difference, mainly because of the increased platter density and spin speed.

[Yacek]

Most of the time you don't want to use Vista index score as a basis for performance gain. But yeah, the new drive does make a difference, mainly because of the increased platter density and spin speed.

Yeah I know vista index is not a good performance indicator.... but applications are much more responsive too... this change was worth to do it!
old Seagate will now serve as an external archive

BTW - I purchased 2.5 inch ext case for HDD (USB 2.0 only). in the manual it says that the case is compatible with HDDs up to 120GB only.... but I did succesful cloning to 320GFB drive inside with no prob.... so I think it's not worth to spend tens of bucks fmore for "full" compatible miniSATA case.

Yacek

[okio]

Hi all,

Finally I decided to replace my old factory Seagate 160GB 5400 rpm with a bigger one. After looking at different opinions here I went to WD Scorpio Black 320GB 7200 rpm. I cloned old drive with acronis (went very very smooth with no probs at all).
First impressions:
- notable faster system load and shutdown
- quiet as old drive
- heat is not an issue.....

Just to add that vista HDD perfomance index has changed from 4.7 (old bottleneck) to 5.9 (!). I guess this is a good increase in perfomance....

will keep you updated if anything problematic happens (hope not!).

Yacek

yeah its a great upgrade.... I have the same drive using windows 7. You just need it for this os

Only a solid state is better...but still too expensive imo

See this post for my scores in W7
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... 37#p523137